Abstract
Understanding the working of labor markets is crucial to understand the functioning of an economy. In addition, the structural nature of labor market and its institutions allows us to explain how changes occur in the political economy. Most of the analysis in the literature on the uprising in MENA countries has been on failed assumptions and the promises of the Arab Spring have been hugely hyped. Therefore, more careful studies of the events taking place in the region must explain both why the basic assumptions have failed and why the promises of the Spring have not been realized. Any answer to these two questions must start with finding what the root causes of the Spring were. A complete explanation of the Arab Spring must take the role of the labor markets into account, and therefore this paper attempts to weigh up the role of labor markets in the Spring
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Abstract
Bir ekonominin işleyişinin anlaşılabilmesi için işgücü piyasalarının nasıl işlediğinin doğru anlaşılması bir zorunluluktur. Ayrıca, işgücü piyasasının ve kurumlarının yapısı politik ekonomide değişimi açıklamamızda da bize yardımcı olur. Literatürde MENA ülkelerinde ortaya çıkan kalkışmalara yönelik analizlerin çoğunun yanlış varsayımlar üzerine kurgulandığı ve Arap Baharının sonuçlarına ilişkin yanıltıcı önermeler yapıldığı görülmektedir. Bu nedenle bu bölgede ortaya çıkan olayların daha dikkatli bir analizi hem bu varsayımların hem de Baharın beklenen sonuçlarının neden gerçekleşmediğini açıklaması gerekmektedir. Bu sorulara verilecek yanıtların da doğal olarak Baharın temel nedenlerinin neler olduğunu ortaya koymakla başlaması gerekmektedir. Bu çerçevedeki bir analiz ise işgücü piyasalarını dikkate almak zorundadır. Bu nedenle bu çalışma, Arap Baharında işgücü piyasalarının oynadığı rolü ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır
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| Primary Language | Turkish |
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| Journal Section | Research Article |
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| Publication Date | July 1, 2014 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2014 Volume: 6 Issue: 1 |
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